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Zachary Taylor was the president leading up to the Compromise of 1850, but died before it was finalized. Who was his successor?

A) Henry Clay

B) William Seward

C) Daniel Webster

D) Millard Fillmore

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Answer:

Millard Fillmore

Step-by-step explanation:

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

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